No, Vernon Wells did not have to ask for directions on how to get around the bases after his 12th-inning single Wednesday.

But it certainly was a strange sight seeing the new Angels left fielder on first after his hit ended a miserable 1-for-33 stretch that tested his patience.

Wells came around to score from third on Jeff Mathis’ sacrifice fly to give the Angels a 12-inning, 4-3 win over the Cleveland Indians in front of 31,049 at Angel Stadium.

The Angels took two of three from the Indians and moved two games above .500 (7-5) for the first time this season. They again got stellar work from their pitching staff, which made up for an offense that went 0-for-12 in the series with runners in scoring position.

Starter Ervin Santana gave up three runs and six hits in seven-plus innings, and the relief corps of Scott Downs, Fernando Rodney, Jordan Walden and Hisanori Takahashi (1-0) combined for five scoreless innings.

Torii Hunter hit a two-run homer in the fourth inning off Indians starter Carlos Carrasco, only the Angels’ second home run of the season with a runner on base.

But don’t give Hunter the ugly details.

“Man, baseball is baseball,” Hunter said. “You can’t get caught up in the numbers. At the end of the day, we see that `W.’ You can’t get stuck on the numbers, you still got to get it done.”

Nevertheless, the numbers have been looking mighty ugly for Wells, who got his average over .100 (.102) with his single Wednesday.

“It’s a stupid thing about this game,” Wells said. “As soon as you think you have it figured out, it’ll hit you in the face.”

But Wells, the Angels’ highest-paid player this season at $23 million after coming to the club in an offseason trade with the Blue Jays, is hoping his hit will get him started.

“It could be in the middle of an at-bat when all of a sudden you say, `Yeah, this is it,’ and it feels right,” he said.

Wells said he had that moment in the ninth inning Wednesday, right before he popped out. But he carried it over to his 12th-inning single off Chad Durbin.

Wells took second when Alberto Callaspo walked and both moved up a base on a wild pitch. Durbin then intentionally walked Mark Trumbo to bring up Mathis, who entered the game in the top of the 11th.

The Indians, anticipating a squeeze attempt on a 1-and-0 count, pitched out but nothing was in the works. On a 2-and-1 pitch, Mathis drove the ball to medium center field and Wells easily beat the throw home.

The Indians took a 1-0 lead in the first inning after Asdrubal Cabrera’s one-out triple to left-center. Wells got a glove on the ball and nearly made the catch, but couldn’t hold on.

Cabrera scored on Shin-Soo Choo’s sacrifice fly.

The Angels scored three runs off Carrasco in the fourth inning, starting with Howie Kendrick’s leadoff double. Kendrick took a wide turn at second base, and the shortstop Cabrera threw behind Kendrick at second.

Cabrera’s throw went over second baseman Orlando Cabrera’s head and Kendrick went to third. The ball then rolled into the Indians’ dugout on the first-base side, which allowed Kendrick to score.

After a walk to Bobby Abreu, Hunter hit his third home run of the season to give the Angels a 3-1 lead.

Michael Brantley’s two-out RBI double in the fifth made it 3-2, and the Indians tied the score at 3-3 in the eighth when Choo drove in Brantley from third on a bouncer that deflected off Downs’ glove and went to Kendrick at second. Choo was out at first but Brantley scored to tie it.

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